Digital v’s glass

[Pellet Pinger]

I am speaking from my own experience. I have used digital optics myself. I have also spent plenty of time with others all using digital optics and observing the constant faff that all have. I have also shot plenty of rabbits, foxes and deer in the dark pre digital age. We used lamps.

Personally I don’t think digital is worth the high expense of buying the kit, nor the fact that it is quickly out of date and pretty much worthless within a couple of years.

Nah, it doesn’t sound like you have much experience with digital and just happy posting negatives plucked from the sky, most people that use digital will see it that way too, glasses to use the buttons, nonsense, you say digital has a narrower field of view, you only have to look at the specs of something like the Alpex 4K against some of the top end glass to know its nonsense. “Battery worry” thats a new one, i’ve been using NV from the start, home brew kits, Photons, all the Pards, Pulsars, DNT, HIK etc and not once have i had to cut a session short due to a battery issue, if you can’t remember to slip a spare battery in your pocket when grabbing your ammo before going out thats an issue with your brain not working properly rather than a technology issue!
Regarding cost you can buy a top digital scope for less than a third of the price of decent glass and it will out perform the most expensive glass in low light, that is a cast iron fact.
If you want to concentrate on the negatives fine but don’t just make them up for the sake of posting something.

 

[Heym SR20]

Nah, it doesn’t sound like you have much experience with digital and just happy posting negatives plucked from the sky, most people that use digital will see it that way too, glasses to use the buttons, nonsense, you say digital has a narrower field of view, you only have to look at the specs of something like the Alpex 4K against some of the top end glass to know its nonsense. “Battery worry” thats a new one, i’ve been using NV from the start, home brew kits, Photons, all the Pards, Pulsars, DNT, HIK etc and not once have i had to cut a session short due to a battery issue, if you can’t remember to slip a spare battery in your pocket when grabbing your ammo before going out thats an issue with your brain not working properly rather than a technology issue!
Regarding cost you can buy a top digital scope for less than a third of the price of decent glass and it will out perform the most expensive glass in low light, that is a cast iron fact.
If you want to concentrate on the negatives fine but don’t just make them up for the sake of posting something.

Sounds like you have no experience of decent glass and are fully wedded to the digital experience and won’t hear anything otherwise from all of us who a completely different opinion and experience. Have you tried Digital optics in the middle of winter on a cold Scottish Mountain in the snow and wet.

And to be honest you have no idea of what of the experience of many many on SD.

My experience of Digital has been wholly unsatisfactory and not something that I want to use, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it for a complete beginner.

 

[Pellet Pinger]

Sounds like you have no experience of decent glass and are fully wedded to the digital experience and won’t hear anything otherwise from all of us who a completely different opinion and experience. Have you tried Digital optics in the middle of winter on a cold Scottish Mountain in the snow and wet.

And to be honest you have no idea of what of the experience of many many on SD.

My experience of Digital has been wholly unsatisfactory and not something that I want to use, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it for a complete beginner.

Not at all, plenty of experience with decent glass, it is what it is, superior by a long way in certain scenarios but digital excels in others, also plenty of experience questioning my sanity in the small hours in sub zero conditions waiting for a fox with digital so i know full well how they perform, both have their place but there’s a reluctance by some to accept that, as your posts demonstrate.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Hmmm.
I must be very odd ‘cos I like and use both - gosh I even use good glass occasionally with a Pard 007 on it!
Seems that after only 123 posts the disparate views of the SD collective have been well and truly aired and may I say even done to death?
Or maybe not…….

 

[Trigger260]

I decided to ditch the dedicated digital and have just purchased a 007 4k. It's early days yet, as I've only been out once with it but I'm impressed so far! Best of both worlds "maybe"!

 

[Leec6.5]

I’ve seen no end of people come here stalking with these newfangled digital scopes, all it does is encourage people to take risky shots through desperation of pulling the trigger!

And on my cull days on CWD, it’s all about the first hour and the last hour, and I have had to do more tracking because people cannot resist pulling the trigger just because they can see them, with glass versus digital here in hillbilly Norfolk I do less work looking for dead and wounded animals with glass then I do digital.

The biggest problem of it all is people cannot control themselves!

That is why on my days here digital and thermal scopes are banned NEVER to be seen or used again.

 

[Mike1979]

I’ve seen no end of people come here stalking with these newfangled digital scopes, all it does is encourage people to take risky shots through desperation of pulling the trigger!

And on my cull days on CWD, it’s all about the first hour and the last hour, and I have had to do more tracking because people cannot resist pulling the trigger just because they can see them, with glass versus digital here in hillbilly Norfolk I do less work looking for dead and wounded animals with glass then I do digital.

The biggest problem of it all is people cannot control themselves!

That is why on my days here digital and thermal scopes are banned NEVER to be seen or used again.

The issue is the person and not the scope. If people take risky shots then thats on them ... a bad shot is a bad shot regardless if its glass or if its digital. I'm sure plenty of animals are f****d up with people taking bad shots with traditional glass as well.

 

[Leec6.5]

if the scope wasn’t there, the temptation wouldn’t be there simple as that!

The scopes are doing nothing but offering people the chance to take risk risks end of subject. I don’t give a monkeys if you’ve used one for 20 years you turn up and drive up through my Gate with one there’s only one way you’re going out that is very quickly the same way you came!

 

[Leec6.5]

@Mike1979 you’re trying to teach an Eskimo to eat yellow snow!

I’m fully aware of what digital scopes are capable of I used the early archers over 25 years ago.

You’re giving it the bigg’un defending it because you’ve not ****ed up YET, either that or you’re not being truthful with yourself.

Digital scopes are the worst thing to happen in dear management in the last 30 years.

 

[Mike1979]

@Mike1979 you’re trying to teach an Eskimo to eat yellow snow!

I’m fully aware of what digital scopes are capable of I used the early archers over 25 years ago.

You’re giving it the bigg’un defending it because you’ve not ****ed up YET, either that or you’re not being truthful with yourself.

Digital scopes are the worst thing to happen in dear management in the last 30 years.

Not trying to teach you anything Lee...just making the point based on my limited experience.

I've f****d up a couple of shots on deer with glass but fortunately got a follow up shot so they never got away.

However I do see your point on temptation .... but thats down to the person..I have said it again and again...i prefer glass but digital is another "tool" in the arsenal.

Horses for courses and not one we are likely to agree on